Association of Local Environmental Records Centres - The Association represents the interests of Local Environmental Records Centres in the UK, promoting standards and services in biodiversity and geodiversity data collation and service provision. Provides a map link to find details of your local records centre.

NatSCA - The Natural Sciences Collections Association (NatSCA) is the UK's organisation for representing Natural Science Collections and associated museum staff, and for communicating all relevant developments and news - see also Natural History Collections Near You.

Fenscore - The Federation for Natural Sciences Collections Research was set up in 1980 to co-ordinate the activities of regional groups of curators in the UK who then were beginning to survey natural science collections in their areas.

iRecord is an online recording website (and apps) - you can add your own records (which are made immediately available to participating recording schemes and records centres) and you can see what others have been recording.

The NBN Gateway provides access to over 100 million species occurrence records, as well as habitat, site boundary and taxonomic information

The Field Studies Council runs courses on identifying and recording species and habitats for all levels of experience

Manchester Metropolitan University runs courses in Biological Recording and Species Identification in association with the Field Studies Council, the Botanical Society of the British Isles and the Freshwater Biological Association.